Population+Control+Socratic+Seminar

=Population Control Socratic Seminar=

Consider the following quotations from //Ishmael// that address the issue of increasing population: We will address the controversial issue of population control put forth in //Ishmael// by examining other readings on the subject and holding a Socratic seminar discussion.
 * //"In the natural community, whenever a population’s food supply increases, that population increases. As that population increases, its food supply decreases, and as its food supply decreases, that population decreases. This interaction between food populations and feeder populations is what keeps everything in balance."//
 * //"Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population."// (quoting Peter Farb's //Humankind//)
 * //"You have to end up where the Takers have ended up—constantly eliminating competitors, constantly increasing your food supply, and constantly wondering what you’re going to do about the population explosion."//
 * //"Given an expanding food supply, any population will expand. This is true of any species, including the human. The Takers have been proving this here for ten thousand years. For ten thousand years they’ve been steadily increasing food production to feed an increased population, and every time they’ve done this, the population has increased still more."//
 * //"Global population control is always something that’s going to happen in the future. It was something that was going to happen in the future when you were three billion in 1960. Now, when you’re five billion, it’s still something that’s going to happen in the future."//

[ Directions ]

 * 1) Assign discussion roles within your group as follows:
 * **Facilitator** -- Develops questions for the group to discuss and keeps group discussion focused.
 * **Vocab Detective** -- Identifies difficult or unfamiliar words and locates valid definitions.
 * **Connector** -- Brainstorms connections to other texts, self, and the world at large.
 * **Summarizer** -- Creates a brief summary of the reading.
 * **Investigator** -- Conducts background research on issues related to the reading.
 * 1) Read each of the following articles, taking appropriate notes and completing discussion role tasks as you go:
 * [|"China's One Child Policy: 25 Years Later"]
 * [|"By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?"]
 * "Eugenics in North Carolina" and related records
 * 1) Discuss each of the readings using your discussion roles.
 * 2) Create Socratic Seminar questions based on your reading, as well as ideas in //Ishmael// related to the issue of population control.

[ Grading and Due Date ]
You must have all three readings and your Socratic Seminar questions completed by **Friday, October 7** in order to be prepared for the Socratic Seminar discussion that day. You will be graded based on your level of constructive, substantive participation in the discussion (both in person as a member of the Inside Circle and online as a member of the Outside Circle). This discussion will count toward the Classwork portion of your grade. There may also be quizzes on the readings.